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Headword:
*)/empalin
Adler number: epsilon,995
Translated headword: back, backwards
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] opposite; or in reverse.[1]
"He prepared to go back across the
Ister, having ferried the barbarian horde across in the so-called small merchant-ships."[2]
*)/empalin: e)nanti/on: h)\ ei)s tou)pi/sw. o( de\ e)/mpalin dielqei=n pareskeu/ase to\n *)/istron, e)n tai=s legome/nais o(lka/si mikrai=s diabiba/sas ta\ barbarika\ plh/qh.
Notes:
cf.
epsilon 678,
epsiloniota 322,
tau 821.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 21 Blockley (192-193); cf.
omicron 171, but with 'long' (
makrai=s) for 'small' (
mikrai=s) there. In 578 John, governor of the Aegean Islands and administrator of the cities of Illyricum, transported the Avar (cf.
alpha 18 generally) khan Baian (cf.
alpha 209) and his forces across the
Ister (lower Danube; cf. OCD(4) s.v. and
epsilon 3019 notes) into Roman territory. On John see PLRE IIIa s.v. Ioannes(91).
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 July 2005@23:28:21.
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